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...Your heart may sink a little at the thought of Back to Black, the new biography of the late singer Amy Winehouse from director Sam Taylor-Johnson. It will sink more watching it....
...When Mary was invited to the Macallan estate by Jaume Ferràs, the brand’s global creative director, to shoot a portrait of Sir Peter Blake (who co-designed the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album...
...While still the highest price of the season, demand for Rembrandt was more marked for Christie’s dedicated sale of 69 prints, from the collection of the mail-order businessman and broad-ranging collector Sam...
...She describes them as “heroically boring” and “like reading an aggrieved version of Wikipedia.” 😬 Elaine Moore, Lex deputy editor I loved Katie Baker’s gossipy account of FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial...
...is re-emerging as an influential force in this year’s Republican primaries, cutting cheques of more than $10mn for two of the top hardline Trump-friendly Republican Senate candidates, Vance in Ohio and Blake...
...Another version of her life is currently being filmed, a biopic called Back to Black directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson....
...For older children, Ken Loach’s pulverising 2016 film I, Daniel Blake (15) explores the gaping holes in the UK benefits system....
...For that, he prefers Sam’s Riverside in Hammersmith. And for lunches with his mother, the Duchess of Cornwall (another Wolseley devotee), it’s now Wiltons, Cafe Murano or Locanda Locatelli....
...FTX, founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, clinched a rescue deal with arch-rival Binance after a surge in customer withdrawals sparked a liquidity crisis....
...It’s hard to explain today the sensation Blakes hotel caused when it opened in 1978....
...“Afterwards, I swear, this kid comes up to me and he asks, ‘who is Uncle Sam?’ He thought it was literally a person”....
...He makes for perfect casting in Sam Mendes’s first world war epic 1917....
...Quentin Blake’s illustrations have lost none of their charm....
...“The fields from Islington to Marylebone/To Primrose Hill and St John’s Wood/Were builded over with pillars of gold/And there Jerusalem’s pillars stood,” wrote William Blake, the visionary artist who was...
...Alfred’s grandson is Sam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of American Beauty, Road to Perdition and the Bond films Skyfall and Spectre....
...William Blake’s “The Sick Rose”, a slight misfire on record, swapped Blake’s tripping anapaests for a hypnotic deep synchronised drumbeat from Catto, Antunes and Thevarajah....
...“Tanpa Nama” roars in on a rock beat from Charles Hayward on drums, with Raman’s partner and co-composer Sam Mills adding bass; the gamelan provides a simple repeating melodic pattern before suddenly accelerating...
...Tim Blake Nelson (a Coen favourite from O Brother, Where Art Thou?) is an absolute scream as this silver-tongued singing cowboy with a quick wit and an even quicker trigger-finger....
...Early on there are also overtones of Blake Edwards’ 10 as Sam spies on his semi-nude neighbours and embarks on the search for an elusive sex object while sinking ever deeper into self-loathing....
...In its energy and vivacity, the artwork calls to mind Quentin Blake....
...Lowry, Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, David Hockney and Peter Blake also features....
...Now her youngest daughter, Olivia Blake, has been elected deputy leader of Sheffield council at the age of 27. “Seeing me gave her real determination to go into politics,” Ms Blake said....
...The production, directed by Sam Helfrich and designed by John Farrell, is a model of dramatic focus. The sets are skeletally lean, but they tell us all we need to know....
...David Blake of Which Mortgage Advisers said deciding the length of the mortgage term was often a case of “balancing speed of repayment with affordable repayment”....
...More impressive is Marsha Stephanie Blake’s scrappy, defiant Emilia. But, as she would put it, this production is neither here nor there. To January 18, nytw.org...
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